A Fresh Look at the Mainframe
Hi, The subject title is a direct copy from the IBM Event I attended on 28th November in London. For anybody who didn't know the event was organised by the IBM Software Group to aid promotion of the platform, and included the following topics: - The New Mainframe - At the Heart of Your Business - Unlock the Value of the Mainframe Assets using SOA - Productive Tools for Application Development - (This was WebSphere Developer on z/Series - WD4Z) - Information on Demand - (This presented DB2 V9 and some Business Intelligence Applications) - The New Face of Mainframe Operatons - (A Review of the Tivoli Product Set) - The Mainframe Design Point - Fundamentally Better - Keeping Your Business Running When Disaster Strikes - The New Face of Mainframe Security - (RACF administration interface) - Consolidate and save with mainframe Linux - When the mainframe really is the lowest cost platform Obviously with so many topics in one day the presentations and demonstrations were pretty high level, but I came away with three key points in respect of making the mainframe a more user friendly environment. WebSphere Developer for z/Series The demonstration of WebSphere Developer on z/Series was interesting given many of the comments in the forum about usability features such as program language syntax checking, which are common on the desktop. With its multi-pane view, syntax checking, JCL constructor, and FTP capability I believe this is the logical way forward. Many of us died-in-the-wool ISPF folk may not switch over, but for people new to the mainframe environment WD4Z is the logical way to integrate more quickly to the mainframe world. True there may be arguments about de-skilling, but anything which improves productivity and helps meet customers demand on IT personnel has to be worth considering. RACF Administration It would appear that Vanguard are now an IBM Business Partner if I remembered the term correctly. The aim of this relationship is to improve the lot of those responsible for security within the z/OS arena. The focus is on an streamlining tasks and providing a common access point when administering multiple system images as in a Sysplex. The market Te final key point was that it was evident that IBM are trying to address the hitherto decline in market share, and gave some interesting scenarios of where and how cost arguments seemingly in favour of other solutions can be turned. This centred on the fact that when a case is argued as a single application, it is difficult to address the costs. However any application usually has development and disaster recovery requirements and when the case is adjusted to include such facilities it becomes a more interesting ball game. It was not a day for techies, but worth while for keeping abreast of what is happening. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk www.kmsitltd.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mails are scanned but it remains the recipients responsibility to ensure that their system is protected from viruses, trojans, worms, and spy-ware. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: z/OS 1.8 Features
Ed Gould wrote: Steve, OK I missed some hidden annoyance that you have against adobe. But it is at least cross platform (PC MACs) .. Whether he might have an aversion against Adobe or not, his answer was strictly factual in this case. To my knowledge, there is no application to prepare presentation material that would natively store the material in PDF format. I have used Lotus Freelance and I'm now using MS PowerPoint, both are using proprietary formats to store the presentations. You then use an Adobe plugin or Acrobat Distiller or some other tool to create a PDF file for distribution of handout material. -- Ulrich Boche SVA GmbH, Germany IBM Premier Business Partner -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Z9 CPU too fast :-)
---snip-- Chase, John wrote: On the lighter side Been getting some change control approval requests from the folks who maintain a rather ancient CICS/VSAM application here. In Reason for change they put New CPU too fast. Seems that since we implemented the new z9 processors, parts of the application that generate VSAM record keys that include date and time have been generating duplicate keys. :-) --unsnip- Maybe you should teach/help them to use the actual TOD clock value, instead of derivations provided by various jigh-level languages. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Moving LOADxx
-snip-- Horein, Steve (HAR-ORL) wrote: Well expletive deleted! So basically I'm not in a very good position, and back to square one. It seems to me that to accomplish what I want, and maintain Production integrity, I need to create an uncataloged copy of MyHLQ.IODFxx (which is found in HSA) on a new volume. I then create SYSx.IPLPARM on this new IODF volume, utilizing LPARNAME filtering, PARMLIB concatenation, all the 'new' bells and whistles, etc, in LOADxx (or more likely LOADxy). I change my LOAD parms to point to new IODF vol and LOAD member, IPL and off I go! Does this sound feasible? ---unsnip IIRC, there's no reason that one IODF cluster can't contain multiple configs. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: MB to Cyl Conversion
-snip Is the subject number or tracks? Let's see, if we drop all but the subject... The number is 200. H. Number is single, is matches, so is is the correct verb. However, if the subject is of tracks... The of tracks are 1. H. The of causes a problem. Guess that means that of tracks is not the actual subject, but a prepositional phrase. ---unsnip- Correct! And a prepositional phrase can NOT be the subject of a sentence. Only a noun or a gerund. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
No more GXxx-yyyy-zz Commands Summary booklets?
Hi, A bunch of VM operators redirected towards MVS asked me for kind of leaflets or booklets with a commands summary in MVS, JES2, IMS, DB2 ... Pubsearch yielded: ... OS/390 V2R10.0 MVS System Commands SummaryGX22-0040-10 OS/390 V2R9 JES2 Commands Summary GX22-0041-05 OS/390 V2R10.0 JES3 Commands Summary GX22-0042-09 ... I looked directly into the PDF shelf for z/OS R7 itself, no nothing ! So no longer GXxx--zz command summary booklets anymore? Jan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: No more GXxx-yyyy-zz Commands Summary booklets?
Groetjes, http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/r7pdf/mvs.html John On Fri, December 1, 2006 13:49, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi, A bunch of VM operators redirected towards MVS asked me for kind of leaflets or booklets with a commands summary in MVS, JES2, IMS, DB2 ... Pubsearch yielded: ... OS/390 V2R10.0 MVS System Commands SummaryGX22-0040-10 OS/390 V2R9 JES2 Commands Summary GX22-0041-05 OS/390 V2R10.0 JES3 Commands Summary GX22-0042-09 ... I looked directly into the PDF shelf for z/OS R7 itself, no nothing ! So no longer GXxx--zz command summary booklets anymore? Jan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html John Cassidy (Dipl.-Ingr.) Berninastrasse 9 8057 Zuerich Europe Telephone: +41 (0) 43 300 4602 Mobile:+41 (0) 79 207 3268 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.JDCassidy.net http://www.europeunited.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_United -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: 9037-002 sysplex timer connect with external source (GPS)
snip- Hi Rick, How did you sync with PC? ar you using 9037-002 ? how can you connect to PC server? thanks for your help --unsnip We purchased the PC interface card so that the 9037 and PC were connected; there was software included with the card to provide a GUI. And yes, these were 9037-002 boxes. They worked just fine. G -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Moving LOADxx
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:40:05 -0500, Horein, Steve (HAR-ORL) wrote: Well expletive deleted! So basically I'm not in a very good position, and back to square one. It seems to me that to accomplish what I want, and maintain Production integrity, I need to create an uncataloged copy of MyHLQ.IODFxx (which is found in HSA) on a new volume. I then create SYSx.IPLPARM on this new IODF volume, utilizing LPARNAME filtering, PARMLIB concatenation, all the 'new' bells and whistles, etc, in LOADxx (or more likely LOADxy). I change my LOAD parms to point to new IODF vol and LOAD member, IPL and off I go! It's probably not so bad. I understand your need to prove to management that it all works, and you need to provide adequate fallback to what you have today. For your fallback, I would suggest a full volume copy of your IODF volume. That copy would be your fallback IODF volume. You could give it a different VOLSER or not. If not, I think (perhaps others can verify) that whichever one you use for the IOFDF at IPL time will come up online and the other will come up offline. If I'm mistaken about this, though, you'll have to respond correctly to the message that tells you that there are two volumes with the same VOLSER. Next, look at your LOADxx members on the two systems. Are they uniquely named? If so, you can build a new SYSn.IPLPARM on your IODF volume and copy all of the members into it. If not, copy them with different names. Maybe keep the LOADxx members as is for your production system and change the names of the members for your test system. IPL your test system to verify that it works ok. Now you can create a new LOADxx for your test system and start playing When you think you've got things the way you want them, you may have to create some PARMLIBs for your production system that matches what you built for your test system and you're ready to go. Don't worry about the name of the LOADxx member that you are building for your testing. Once you have everything weorking as you like, you can always copy it to the name that you want. Also understand that your SYSn.IPLPARM does not need to be in your ARMLIB concatenation. It is only needed at IPL time and you can freely compress it, or delete and reallocate it if necessary. As to your PARMLIB concatenation, I recommend that you do as Mark (I think) mentioned and concatenate your parmlib ahead of the one that is maintained by SMP/E. If you have need of a different PARMLIB for your two systems, you could consider (I hope I'm saying this right... ) SYS1.SYSNAME..PARMLIB. Another that I have found useful at times is SYS1.SYSR1..PARMLIB. Remember that you can always change your PARMLIB concatenation when you discover new needs. You really don't need to put more in there than you need now. For your installation PARMLIB, I would recommend, though that you not include any member that is using all defaults. It is better, IMO to take the defaults from the SMP/E maintained PARMLIB. Good luck! -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Z9 CPU too fast :-)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jeffrey D. Smith -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chase, John On the lighter side Been getting some change control approval requests from the folks who maintain a rather ancient CICS/VSAM application here. In Reason for change they put New CPU too fast. Seems that since we implemented the new z9 processors, parts of the application that generate VSAM record keys that include date and time have been generating duplicate keys. :-) I would venture a guess that the real problem is an application design or implementation error. Design. Remember, this application was designed back when the 3081 was incredibly fast. And, for reasons that are unclear to me, it was deemed that VSAM record keys had to be human-readable, so that's probably why raw STCK[E] is not used as part of the key. -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: z/OS 1.8 Features
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 1.8 Features Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? PDF is a file format, not a desktop publishing application. Right. After I write the course, I actually do produce PDF files for lecturing and printing from. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock I know that this is OT and likely not really very helpful. But I've heard the LyX on Linux is one of the best Desktop Publishing systems (not word processor, different genre) around. It is a full screen type interface to Donald Knuth's TeX publishing system. Cost: free. License: GPL v2+. http://www.lyx.org -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: MB to Cyl Conversion
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:57:20 -0600, Friske, Michael wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS Is there a formula for this ? Also Gb to cyl. Thanks Here is a little REXX exec that does the trick for us. /* Rexx */ ARG N1 CYL = ((N1*1024*1024) / 849960) SAY 'THE NUMBER OF CYLINDERS IS' CYL For GB to tracks -- /* Rexx */ ARG N1 TRK = ((N1*1024*1024) / 56664) SAY 'THE NUMBER OF TRACKS IS' TRK I would point out two things about this. First, the numbers that you are using are the raw number of bytes per track/cylinder. You can't actually put that much data on a track or cylinder using normal access methods. Second, the calculation prooduces MiB, not MB. Disk capacities are normally specified in MB, not MiB. The factor should be 1,000,000 not by 1024*1024. These two cause errors in opposite directions, perhaps even canceling each other somewhat. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Z9 CPU too fast :-)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman ---snip-- Chase, John wrote: On the lighter side Been getting some change control approval requests from the folks who maintain a rather ancient CICS/VSAM application here. In Reason for change they put New CPU too fast. Seems that since we implemented the new z9 processors, parts of the application that generate VSAM record keys that include date and time have been generating duplicate keys. :-) --unsnip- Maybe you should teach/help them to use the actual TOD clock value, instead of derivations provided by various jigh-level languages. An offer to do so has been on the table for nearly a decade -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: MB to Cyl Conversion
On 30 Nov 2006 15:13:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: SAY 'THE NUMBER OF TRACKS IS' TRK UGH! Where's your grammar? Home. Baking cookies (or dropping them onto your PC). I can accept 'The number of tracks are'! Even for 1. I cannot accept 'IS'! I actually check for that exception when I SAY something. I couldn't disagree more. The number is one - not The number are one. Or The number are five. Do you say the population of the United States are 295,734,134? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: z/OS 1.8 Features
Ed Gould wrote: Steve, OK I missed some hidden annoyance that you have against adobe. But it is at least cross platform (PC MACs) .. I don't see where you get the idea that I have any annoyance, hidden or otherwise, against Adobe. You simply can't compose in PDF. I have a large, historical investment in Ventura Publisher and I hope I can use it until I stop creating courses and writing papers. But you can't display Ventura pages on a projector well, so I choose PDF as the format to use for actually printing and displaying, and I'm quite happy with that. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock Ed On Nov 30, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? PDF is a file format, not a desktop publishing application. Right. After I write the course, I actually do produce PDF files for lecturing and printing from. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: z/OS 1.8 Features
Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Not knowing a lot about desktop publishing ... Why not .PDF ? PDF is a file format, not a desktop publishing application. OK so I used the wrong term The application that creates PDF's . That's *all* PC applications: web browsers, word processors, spreadsheets, you name it. Acrobat captures *any* print-destined output and makes PDF files. I even save my Internet purchase receipts as PDF documents rather than printing them on paper. What's more is that since PDF is an open format, you don't even have to use Adobe Acrobat to generate the file. There are a variety of other programs that do just this. For example - Apple Mac OS X has native PDF generation built right in - no additional software required. -- Anthony Giorgio Ported Tools for z/OS UNIX System Services -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: z/OS 1.8 Features
I've just started learning LyX and I very much like the idea about how it works. I once did a 250 page document in Word and I literally spent more time trying to get Word to print it correctly than I did writing the doc. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Right. After I write the course, I actually do produce PDF files for lecturing and printing from. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock I know that this is OT and likely not really very helpful. But I've heard the LyX on Linux is one of the best Desktop Publishing systems (not word processor, different genre) around. It is a full screen type interface to Donald Knuth's TeX publishing system. Cost: free. License: GPL v2+. http://www.lyx.org -- John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Grammar (was RE: MB to Cyl Conversion)
-jc- wrote: Well, you've been doing it wrong, then. The subject of the sentence is NUMBER, not TRACKS. NUMBER is singular; therefore IS is grammatically correct. As noted in the reference below, the treating certains nouns as singular, or plural can be confusing (personally, I slept through most of the grammer lessons in grade school). But, it seems that jc is correct. http://www.staff.rice.edu/staff/Grammar1.asp -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?
When I asked about options to free datasets that were no longer used halfway down a very long running SMF-processing NeuMICS (and therefore SAS) job step, Ed Gould wrote: The problem I think is with SAS (design issue?) . I believe that with any other application when you get to the the end of input you would reasonably close the data set. But I am guessing that SAS does not close the input until it has completed processing . I am not familiar with MICS but perhaps it would be faster to strip out the SMF records its needs (Type xx etc). This can be done with IFSADMP or any other utility (perhaps SORT or ICETOOL with IF control cards which certainly be a lot faster). If MICS needs ALL SMF records then I would guess you are stuck. Ed, thanks for replying. As far as SAS is concerned I know that I can free allocations using either filename dd-name clear; /* when referring to non-SAS datasets */ or libname dd-name clear;/* when referring to SAS libraries */ From the discussion in this thread however it seems that deallocating the input tape dataset (which consists of only the DB2 SMF records in this case) will not buy me anything when my prime target is to free the enqueue and not to hold the dataset until all the time consuming data aggregation has been done. I'm still hoping that I get this wrong and that infact using something like //INPUTSMF DD DISP=OLD,DSN=THE.DB2.SMF.DATA MICS input processing here filename inputsmf clear;/* point A */ further MICS processing here further processing done /* point B */ would free THE.DB2.SMF.DATA (which is not being used in other steps) for other jobs. Can anybody confirm in simple words at what point in my example the dataset (which is on tape) can be used by other jobs? Is it at point A or at point B? Thanks again Robert Bardos Ansys AG, Zürich, Switzerland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: MB to Cyl Conversion
Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On 30 Nov 2006 15:13:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: SAY 'THE NUMBER OF TRACKS IS' TRK UGH! Where's your grammar? Home. Baking cookies (or dropping them onto your PC). I can accept 'The number of tracks are'! Even for 1. I cannot accept 'IS'! I actually check for that exception when I SAY something. I couldn't disagree more. The number is one - not The number are one. Or The number are five. Do you say the population of the United States are 295,734,134? Well, now you hit a topic on the head, that I, as non-English, never was able to understand, not get a feel for: why you say: the police *are* i.s.o. the police *is*... as we do and lots of other languages. Also: the firebrigade *are*? Why not then: the population are? And even more strange is Elvis Costello's text: Oliver's army *are* on their way, Oliver's army *is* here to stay. (Unless this is incorrect Enghlish of course). Kees. ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ** -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How tell in program if allocation from catalog?
Is there a reasonable way for a program to tell if an allocated input dataset was located via a catalog, or OTOH from a DD statement VOLSER? In the JFCB, flag JFCCAT in byte JFCBTSSM (JFCB+x'34') indicates that the dataset is cataloged, which implies it was located via the catalog. You can get the JFCB with the RDJFCB macro -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Grammar (was RE: MB to Cyl Conversion)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL SAY 'THE NUMBER OF TRACKS IS' TRK UGH! Where's your grammar? I cannot accept 'IS'! I actually check for that exception when I SAY something. Well, you've been doing it wrong, then. The subject of the sentence is NUMBER, not TRACKS. NUMBER is singular; therefore IS is grammatically correct. -jc- You is correct, JC. B-) Steve ** This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. ** -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?
Am I correct in assuming that does not mean what it says; that what it should say is something like Coding FREE=CLOSE has no effect except when it is coded in the last jobstep that refers to the dataset? No effect? FREE=CLOSE deallocates the dataset; if on tape, it frees the tape drive. It may not DEQ the dataset. I am actually interested in using SVC 99 allocate with the FREE text unit (whose documentation refers in turn to the restriction above). Am I correct in assuming that (barring some other allocation of the dataset) that coding this text unit will cause the dataset ENQ to be released when the dataset is closed? If you had no other ENQ for the same dataset name in the job, then the ENQ will be released when the FREE=CLOSE is executed -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: MB to Cyl Conversion
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MB to Cyl Conversion snip Well, now you hit a topic on the head, that I, as non-English, never was able to understand, not get a feel for: why you say: the police *are* i.s.o. the police *is*... as we do and lots of other languages. Also: the firebrigade *are*? Why not then: the population are? And even more strange is Elvis Costello's text: Oliver's army *are* on their way, Oliver's army *is* here to stay. (Unless this is incorrect Enghlish of course). snip Englisch tickt nicht Rechtig. Sorry, I don't know how to put that in Dutch (and I had to use Babel Fish to get close to the correct spelling). Regards, Steve Thompson -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: z/OS 1.8 Features
OpenOffice.org Impress easily allows one to prepare presentation material and natively store in PDF format. File - Export as PDF in OpenOffice.org Impress - been using it for years in Linux. (Import of SHARE .ppt templates works well, too. ;-) Steve. On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Ulrich Boche wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Steve, OK I missed some hidden annoyance that you have against adobe. But it is at least cross platform (PC MACs) .. Whether he might have an aversion against Adobe or not, his answer was strictly factual in this case. To my knowledge, there is no application to prepare presentation material that would natively store the material in PDF format. I have used Lotus Freelance and I'm now using MS PowerPoint, both are using proprietary formats to store the presentations. You then use an Adobe plugin or Acrobat Distiller or some other tool to create a PDF file for distribution of handout material. -- Ulrich Boche SVA GmbH, Germany IBM Premier Business Partner -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Problem with dataset name when FTPing from Windoze
IIRC, the £ symbol would occupy the same code page location as the $ does in code pages used where the $ is the preferred currency symbol. I suspect that this would require code page customization for TCP/IP on the mainframe. Bill Pi-R wrote: Hi, Kevin. How did you manage to have a dataset with a name containing a £ on a z/OS 1.7 system? As far as I know, datasets with such names can't be catalogued. See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/IEA2B661/12.22.1?SHELF=iea2bk61DT=20060125042105CASE= Pierre. = Simple is too complicated kevin wrote: I'm getting a problem trying to FTP a dataset from windows up to a zos 1.7 system. My dataset on the zos system has £A as its second level qualifier. When I issue a CD command I get a message cd £a 501 A qualifier in #8735;a begins with an invalid character If I change the command to cd $a it works :- cd $a 250 I899.$A. is the working directory name prefix. I know its only an inconvenience but does anyone have any ideas? Cheers Kevin -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: MB to Cyl Conversion
We have UMS.REXX.APPL.LIB(TRACKS): /* PROGRAM TO CALCULATE TRACKS AND CYLINDERS BASED ON RECORD LENGTH */ /* AND BLOCK SIZE. WRITTEN IN REXX BY R. STEHLIK, 04/21/91. */ /* FOR EQUAL LENGTH PHYSICAL RECORDS WITHOUT KEYS. */ SAY 'THIS PROGRAM WILL CALCULATE THE TRACKS AND CYLINDERS NEEDED FOR' SAY 'EQUAL-LENGTH PHYSICAL RECORDS WITHOUT KEYS ON A 3380 VOLUME.' CALL LOAD_TABLE DO FOREVER DROP TRK_1 RECS RDC_LEN BLK_FCT TOT_BYT EST_REC TOT_TRK MAX_BLK OPT_BLK SAY SAY SAY 'PRESS ENTER TO EXIT, OR' SAY SAY 'ENTER RECORD LENGTH:' PULL RCD_LEN IF RCD_LEN = '' THEN LEAVE MAX_BLK = TRUNC(47476 / RCD_LEN) OPT_BLK = TRUNC(23476 / RCD_LEN) SAY SAY 'LARGEST EFFICIENT BLOCKING FACTOR FOR RECORD LENGTH' RCD_LEN SAY 'IS' OPT_BLK'. IF YOU EXCEED THIS SIZE, THIS PROGRAM WILL END.' SAY SAY SAY 'ENTER BLOCKING FACTOR:' PULL BLK_FCT IF BLK_FCT = '' THEN LEAVE IF BLK_FCT TRUNC(OPT_BLK + .5) THEN DOSAY 'BLOCKING FACTOR ENTERED, EXCEEDS LARGEST BLOCK RECCOMMENDED'SAY 'FOR EFFICIENCY. PROGRAM IS ENDING. PLEASE TRY AGAIN'SAY 'WITHOUT EXCEEDING LARGEST EFFICIENT BLOCKING FACTOR.'LEAVEEND SAY SAY 'YOUR BLOCKSIZE IS 'RCD_LEN * BLK_FCT'.' SAY SAY 'ENTER ESTIMATED NUMBER OF RECORDS:' SAY PULL EST_REC IF EST_REC = '' THEN LEAVE BLK_SZE = RCD_LEN * BLK_FCT TOT_BYT = RCD_LEN * EST_REC RECS = 0 TOT_TRK = 0 DO I = 1 TO 61 IF BLK_SZE = SUBSTR(DATA.I, 1, 5) BLK_SZE = SUBSTR(DATA.I, 6, 5) THEN DO RECS = SUBSTR(DATA.I, 11, 2) TRK_1 = RECS * BLK_SZE TOT_TRK = TOT_BYT / TRK_1 LEAVE END END IF RECS = 0 THEN DO SAY 'BLOCKSIZE' BLK_SZE 'OUTSIDE OF RANGE, CANNOT CALCULATE.' END IF TOT_TRK 0 THEN DO SAY SAY 'YOU WILL NEED A TOTAL OF' TRUNC(TOT_TRK + .5) 'TRACKS' SAY 'OR' TRUNC(TOT_TRK / 15 + .5) 'CYLINDERS.' END END EXIT LOAD_TABLE: PROCEDURE EXPOSE DATA. DATA.1 = '234774747601' DATA.2 = '154772347602' DATA.3 = '114771547603' DATA.4 = '090771174604' DATA.5 = '074770907605' DATA.6 = '062570747606' DATA.7 = '054930635607' DATA.8 = '048210549208' DATA.9 = '042770482009' DATA.10 = '038610427610' DATA.11 = '034770386011' DATA.12 = '031890347612' DATA.13 = '029330318813' DATA.14 = '026770293214' DATA.15 = '024850267615' DATA.16 = '023250248416' DATA.17 = '021650232417' DATA.18 = '020050216418' DATA.19 = '018770200419' DATA.20 = '017810187620' DATA.21 = '016850178021' DATA.22 = '015890168422' DATA.23 = '014930158823' DATA.24 = '013970149224' DATA.25 = '013330139625' DATA.26 = '012690133226' DATA.27 = '012050126827' DATA.28 = '011410120428' DATA.29 = '010770114029' DATA.30 = '010450107630' DATA.31 = '009810104431' DATA.32 = '009490098032' DATA.33 = '009170094833' DATA.34 = '008530091634' DATA.35 = '008210085235' DATA.36 = '007890082036' DATA.37 = '007570078837' DATA.38 = '007250075638' DATA.39 = '006930072439' DATA.40 = '006610069240' DATA.41 = '006290066041' DATA.42 = '005970062842' DATA.43 = '005650059644' DATA.44 = '005530056445' DATA.45 = '005010053246' DATA.46 = '004690050048' DATA.47 = '004370046849' DATA.48 = '004050043651' DATA.49 = '003730040453' DATA.50 = '003410037255' DATA.51 = '003090034057' DATA.52 = '002770030859' DATA.53 = '002450027662' DATA.54 = '002130024465' DATA.55 = '001810021268' DATA.56 = '001490018071' DATA.57 = '001170014874' DATA.58 = '000850011678' DATA.59 = '000530008483' DATA.60 = '000210005288' DATA.61 = '10002093' RETURN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Problem with dataset name when FTPing from Windoze
In a recent note, Big Iron said: Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:25:21 -0600 IIRC, the £ symbol would occupy the same code page location as the $ does in code pages used where the $ is the preferred currency symbol. I suspect that this would require code page customization for TCP/IP on the mainframe. Pi-R wrote: How did you manage to have a dataset with a name containing a £ on a z/OS 1.7 system? As far as I know, datasets with such names can't be catalogued. See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/IEA2B661/12.22.1?SHELF=iea2bk61DT=20060125042105CASE= kevin wrote: I'm getting a problem trying to FTP a dataset from windows up to a zos 1.7 system. My dataset on the zos system has £A as its second level qualifier. When I issue a CD command I get a message cd £a 501 A qualifier in #8735;a begins with an invalid character For other purposes, from UNIX to z/OS, I use: quote site sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1) Could you do similarly? Issues: o Does SBDATACONN apply to data set names/path names? If not, I'd consider it APARable. o Does SBDATACONN support Unicode (which appears to be used in the Windoze protocol)? o Is the Windoze code page available to z/OS? For the last two, IBM should heed the 800-lb. gorilla. I'm not sure Unicode in control messages conforms to RFC 959, but if not you'd have to confront the gorilla. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
This has come up here. We are in month-end. Our CPU resource is 100% pretty much constantly. And, even worse, with a CPU Queue Depth of over 20. We end up having problems cancelling TSO users and test batch jobs. The CANCEL is accepted, but the address space cannot get any CPU to actually terminate. We used to have a CA-OPS/MVS rule to do a RESET ...,SERVCLAS= to set the cancelled address space to a very high priority service class. Unfortunately, this has resulted in another problem. We use CA-MIM Integrity to requeue work which has ENQ conflicts on datasets. CA-MIM does this via a $HJ/$EJ/$CJ sequence. The $CJ results in the service class being reset to the high priority one. But it is remembered and is used when the job next starts to execute. This is unacceptable, but I cannot think of a way around it. So, any words of wisdom that don't boil down to don't do that! WRT to overinitiating the CPU? I cannot control that. Well, I could theoritically, but not practically. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
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Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation. This has come up here. We are in month-end. Our CPU resource is 100% pretty much constantly. And, even worse, with a CPU Queue Depth of over 20. We end up having problems cancelling TSO users and test batch jobs. The CANCEL is accepted, but the address space cannot get any CPU to actually terminate. snip What a co-inky-dink. I was just giving this situation some thought this morning. I used to have a utility routine that would do a CALLRTM and terminate a JOB/TASK with the Sxxx I desired. Seems that this is how RESOLVE did it back when I was at Droole Babble (as I recall it forced a S222). But, this then comes back to the question, under WLM, will the target JOB/Task get CPU to be terminated? I would think it does because the MVS CANCEL command handles this a bit differently if I remember correctly. Perhaps you could write the same and get it blessed? Later, Steve Thompson -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Best aproach - IEANTRT+BALR or LINK
Mainframers, We have been using na OPEN exit (IFG0EX0B) for years sucessfully and every time we have to do some maintenance an IPL is needed. To circunvent it i`ll change it to a front-end exit which actually invokes the real code. I'm thinking in something like that : a) Before IFG0EX0B: DO All Stuff END b) After Option 1 PGMA:/* Part of an Address Space started at IPL time */ DO CSVDYLPA Request=ADD Member=XXX0EX0B LOAD EP=XXX0EX0B ST R0,AddressLpa IEANTCR ( AddressLpa ) END IFG0EX0B:/* OPEN EXIT */ DO IEANTRT ( AddressLpa ) LTR R15,R15 JZ Do_Not_Call_XXX0EX0B LR15,AddressLpa BALR R14,R15 END XXX0EX0B:/* Loaded previously to LPA by CSVDYLPA */ DO All Stuff END c) After Option 2 PGMA:/* Part of an Address Space started at IPL time */ DO CSVDYLPA Request=ADD Member=XXX0EX0B END IFG0EX0B:/* OPEN EXIT */ DO LINK EP=XXX0EX0B,ERRET=Do_Not_Call_XXX0EX0B END XXX0EX0B:/* Loaded previously to LPA by CSVDYLPA */ DO All Stuff END I would like some advice related to performance aspects specially because there are some circunstances where XXX0EX0B may be removed from LPA. Your help will be very appreciated. Thanks in advance Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto Banco Bradesco S/A 4254/DPCD Alphaville Suporte Técnico - Software Básico Mainframes Tel: 55 11 4197-2021 Fax: 55 11 4197-2814 AVISO LEGAL BR Esta mensagem é destinada exclusivamente para a(s) pessoa(s) a quem é dirigida, podendo conter informação confidencial e/ou legalmente privilegiada. Se você não for destinatário desta mensagem, desde já fica notificado de abster-se a divulgar, copiar, distribuir, examinar ou, de qualquer forma, utilizar a informação contida nesta mensagem, por ser ilegal. Caso você tenha recebido esta mensagem por engano, pedimos que nos retorne este E-Mail, promovendo, desde logo, a eliminação do seu conteúdo em sua base de dados, registros ou sistema de controle. Fica desprovida de eficácia e validade a mensagem que contiver vínculos obrigacionais, expedida por quem não detenha poderes de representação. +**+ LEGAL ADVICE BR This message is exclusively destined for the people to whom it is directed, and it can bear private and/or legally exceptional information. If you are not addressee of this message, since now you are advised to not release, copy, distribute, check or, otherwise, use the information contained in this message, because it is illegal. If you received this message by mistake, we ask you to return this email, making possible, as soon as possible, the elimination of its contents of your database, registrations or controls system. The message that bears any mandatory links, issued by someone who has no representation powers, shall be null or void. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
RES: Best aproach - IEANTRT+BALR or LINK
Hello Ituriel, You can use the GFSIPL utility, which is part of GFS/AFM Tape Management System. Using this, you can load into MLPA your module Dynamically. The only restriction, every time you load this module into memory you will waste more MLPA, because this utility does not release the module loaded before. Best regards, Roberto Pacheco Phone: +55 11 3817 6313 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.gfs-software.com.br -Mensagem original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO Enviada em: sexta-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2006 14:03 Para: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Assunto: Best aproach - IEANTRT+BALR or LINK Mainframers, We have been using na OPEN exit (IFG0EX0B) for years sucessfully and every time we have to do some maintenance an IPL is needed. To circunvent it i`ll change it to a front-end exit which actually invokes the real code. I'm thinking in something like that : a) Before IFG0EX0B: DO All Stuff END b) After Option 1 PGMA:/* Part of an Address Space started at IPL time */ DO CSVDYLPA Request=ADD Member=XXX0EX0B LOAD EP=XXX0EX0B ST R0,AddressLpa IEANTCR ( AddressLpa ) END IFG0EX0B:/* OPEN EXIT */ DO IEANTRT ( AddressLpa ) LTR R15,R15 JZ Do_Not_Call_XXX0EX0B LR15,AddressLpa BALR R14,R15 END XXX0EX0B:/* Loaded previously to LPA by CSVDYLPA */ DO All Stuff END c) After Option 2 PGMA:/* Part of an Address Space started at IPL time */ DO CSVDYLPA Request=ADD Member=XXX0EX0B END IFG0EX0B:/* OPEN EXIT */ DO LINK EP=XXX0EX0B,ERRET=Do_Not_Call_XXX0EX0B END XXX0EX0B:/* Loaded previously to LPA by CSVDYLPA */ DO All Stuff END I would like some advice related to performance aspects specially because there are some circunstances where XXX0EX0B may be removed from LPA. Your help will be very appreciated. Thanks in advance Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto Banco Bradesco S/A 4254/DPCD Alphaville Suporte Técnico - Software Básico Mainframes Tel: 55 11 4197-2021 Fax: 55 11 4197-2814 AVISO LEGAL BR Esta mensagem é destinada exclusivamente para a(s) pessoa(s) a quem é dirigida, podendo conter informação confidencial e/ou legalmente privilegiada. Se você não for destinatário desta mensagem, desde já fica notificado de abster-se a divulgar, copiar, distribuir, examinar ou, de qualquer forma, utilizar a informação contida nesta mensagem, por ser ilegal. Caso você tenha recebido esta mensagem por engano, pedimos que nos retorne este E-Mail, promovendo, desde logo, a eliminação do seu conteúdo em sua base de dados, registros ou sistema de controle. Fica desprovida de eficácia e validade a mensagem que contiver vínculos obrigacionais, expedida por quem não detenha poderes de representação. +**+ LEGAL ADVICE BR This message is exclusively destined for the people to whom it is directed, and it can bear private and/or legally exceptional information. If you are not addressee of this message, since now you are advised to not release, copy, distribute, check or, otherwise, use the information contained in this message, because it is illegal. If you received this message by mistake, we ask you to return this email, making possible, as soon as possible, the elimination of its contents of your database, registrations or controls system. The message that bears any mandatory links, issued by someone who has no representation powers, shall be null or void. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
RES: Best aproach - IEANTRT+BALR or LINK
Pacheco, Thanks for your feed back, but the load into MLPA is not the point. Actually i want to know which option generates less overhead. Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Banco Bradesco S/A 4254/DPCD Alphaville Suporte Técnico - Software Básico Mainframes Ituriel do Nascimento Neto Tel: 55 11 4197-2021 Fax: 55 11 4197-2814 -Mensagem original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Roberto Pacheco Enviada em: sexta-feira, 01 de dezembro de 2006 16:20 Para: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Assunto: RES: Best aproach - IEANTRT+BALR or LINK Hello Ituriel, You can use the GFSIPL utility, which is part of GFS/AFM Tape Management System. Using this, you can load into MLPA your module Dynamically. The only restriction, every time you load this module into memory you will waste more MLPA, because this utility does not release the module loaded before. Best regards, Roberto Pacheco Phone: +55 11 3817 6313 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.gfs-software.com.br AVISO LEGAL BR Esta mensagem é destinada exclusivamente para a(s) pessoa(s) a quem é dirigida, podendo conter informação confidencial e/ou legalmente privilegiada. Se você não for destinatário desta mensagem, desde já fica notificado de abster-se a divulgar, copiar, distribuir, examinar ou, de qualquer forma, utilizar a informação contida nesta mensagem, por ser ilegal. Caso você tenha recebido esta mensagem por engano, pedimos que nos retorne este E-Mail, promovendo, desde logo, a eliminação do seu conteúdo em sua base de dados, registros ou sistema de controle. Fica desprovida de eficácia e validade a mensagem que contiver vínculos obrigacionais, expedida por quem não detenha poderes de representação. +**+ LEGAL ADVICE BR This message is exclusively destined for the people to whom it is directed, and it can bear private and/or legally exceptional information. If you are not addressee of this message, since now you are advised to not release, copy, distribute, check or, otherwise, use the information contained in this message, because it is illegal. If you received this message by mistake, we ask you to return this email, making possible, as soon as possible, the elimination of its contents of your database, registrations or controls system. The message that bears any mandatory links, issued by someone who has no representation powers, shall be null or void. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?
Yes, Walt wisely points out that no effect is too severe, and yes, I went ahead and wrote the software and it works as intended. Another job can allocate the dataset I created with FREE=CLOSE while the creating program is still running. My thinking now is that the note in the manual is simply superfluous. Of course FREE=CLOSE only frees up that one allocation, not every allocation in every step. At most the note should say something like what I just said in the previous sentence. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective? Am I correct in assuming that does not mean what it says; that what it should say is something like Coding FREE=CLOSE has no effect except when it is coded in the last jobstep that refers to the dataset? No effect? FREE=CLOSE deallocates the dataset; if on tape, it frees the tape drive. It may not DEQ the dataset. I am actually interested in using SVC 99 allocate with the FREE text unit (whose documentation refers in turn to the restriction above). Am I correct in assuming that (barring some other allocation of the dataset) that coding this text unit will cause the dataset ENQ to be released when the dataset is closed? If you had no other ENQ for the same dataset name in the job, then the ENQ will be released when the FREE=CLOSE is executed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
[SPAM] RE: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
McKown, John writes: This has come up here. We are in month-end. Our CPU resource is 100% pretty much constantly. And, even worse, with a CPU Queue Depth of over 20. We end up having problems cancelling TSO users and test batch jobs. The CANCEL is accepted, but the address space cannot get any CPU to actually terminate. How about bumping up the priority of the job/tso user so that they can get the CPU needed to abend? Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 - - This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?
In a recent note, Charles Mills said: Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:14:56 -0800 My thinking now is that the note in the manual is simply superfluous. Of course FREE=CLOSE only frees up that one allocation, not every allocation in every step. At most the note should say something like what I just said in the previous sentence. Peraps the manual is oversimplifying. I believe that technically only the active step can have any allocations, so there are no allocations to FREE in any other step. Meanwhile the initiator holds any ENQs, at least for DD statements in JCL. So I suspect that there's some communication such as Allocation tells initiator, Hey, I just FREEd dsname SUCH.AND.SUCH, so you can DEQ it! But initiator looks around and thinks, No, I can't because it's used elsewhere in JCL. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate that. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
How is that remembered after a $CJ? I would think the new job should have be assigned its service class based upon the WLM rules. Jon snip The $CJ results in the service class being reset to the high priority one. But it is remembered and is used when the job next starts to execute. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: [SPAM] RE: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: [SPAM] RE: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation. McKown, John writes: This has come up here. We are in month-end. Our CPU resource is 100% pretty much constantly. And, even worse, with a CPU Queue Depth of over 20. We end up having problems cancelling TSO users and test batch jobs. The CANCEL is accepted, but the address space cannot get any CPU to actually terminate. How about bumping up the priority of the job/tso user so that they can get the CPU needed to abend? Jon L. Veilleux HOW??? As I stated, for some batch jobs, that results in the SERVCLAS being updated when the restart and that is unacceptable. I guess that I could update the CA-OPS/MVS rule to only work if the CANCEL is against a TSO user. That's a good idea. I'll ask. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Brock Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation. How is that remembered after a $CJ? I would think the new job should have be assigned its service class based upon the WLM rules. Jon The $EJ and $HJ before the $CJ causes that __same__ job to be requeued to be re-executed. During the re-execution, the job runs with the non-standard high service class that the CANCEL (which the $CJ issues under the covers) rule in CA-OPS/MVS uses to issue a RESET. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down
Tom Schmidt wrote: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:08:06 -0500, Petersen, Jim wrote: Here we go again. I love these reliable new tools IBM has given us. IBM please take us back to the reliable green screen. Even the reliable green screen interface is having trouble today :-( ICH70001I IL72848 LAST ACCESS AT 23:15:08 ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2006 z/VM Version 5 Release 2.0, Service Level 0601 (64-bit), built on IBM Virtualization Technology There is no logmsg data FILES: 0003 RDR, NO PRT, NO PUN LOGON AT 18:48:27 UTC FRIDAY 12/01/06 ELINK z/VM CMS 22 20-Apr-2006 CFSWEUA 0192 not linked; request denied $GEOXT$ - unable to VMLINK CFSWEUA 192 Disk. RC=1298 Ready; T=0.22/0.26 18:48:33 18:48:33 ACVRDR0209I Spool file 1149 (NOVMLINK CFSWEUA) is not in NETDATA format. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down
In a message dated 12/1/2006 12:54:28 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even the reliable green screen interface is having trouble today :-( Back when I had a modem I used dial-up with Passport as third or fourth backup. Always worked! But this looks like they took the 192 mini-disk down to do maint or rebuild -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down
According to someone on the VM list server, the problem was not with the system itself but with its access to the 'Net. Jon snip Even the reliable green screen interface is having trouble today :-( Back when I had a modem I used dial-up with Passport as third or fourth backup. Always worked! But this looks like they took the 192 mini-disk down to do maint or rebuild /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down
Jon Brock wrote: According to someone on the VM list server, the problem was not with the system itself but with its access to the 'Net. The same might be true for the horrendous problems being experienced lately by users of IBMLink's web-based interfaces. No matter how you slice it, from the end users' perspective, a system is only as reliable as its weakest link. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
What allocate means (Was RE: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?)
So we use allocate(d) in at least three related but distinct senses: - The dataset is allocated to DD name XXX. - The dataset is allocated to job YYY (but to a step that is not yet running, or which has already completed, so there is no DD name to which it is allocated) - And of course, the sense of space allocation. The 5 cylinder dataset is allocated to DD XXX, but the space has not yet been allocated. This is not claimed to be some brilliant discovery on my part; I'm just prattling. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective? I believe that technically only the active step can have any allocations, so there are no allocations to FREE in any other step. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
I trust you've explained to your management that by not putting the initiators under WLM control that they are exacerbating the problem. Once you reach 100%, each additional submitted job takes cpu cycles away from Problem State because the operating system needs the cycles in Supervisor State to manage the additional workload. Unfortunately users would rather see their jobs 'running' even when they aren't receiving much, if any, service, than sitting in the input queue. Your management has 3 choices: Manage the workload Upgrade the cpu Accept the situation -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 1:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Brock Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation. How is that remembered after a $CJ? I would think the new job should have be assigned its service class based upon the WLM rules. Jon The $EJ and $HJ before the $CJ causes that __same__ job to be requeued to be re-executed. During the re-execution, the job runs with the non-standard high service class that the CANCEL (which the $CJ issues under the covers) rule in CA-OPS/MVS uses to issue a RESET. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 1:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation. I trust you've explained to your management that by not putting the initiators under WLM control that they are exacerbating the problem. Once you reach 100%, each additional submitted job takes cpu cycles away from Problem State because the operating system needs the cycles in Supervisor State to manage the additional workload. Unfortunately users would rather see their jobs 'running' even when they aren't receiving much, if any, service, than sitting in the input queue. Your management has 3 choices: Manage the workload Not likely. But I wish. Upgrade the cpu Under consideration, but not politically palatable because we too are getting of the mainframe. Accept the situation Not likely. From what I can tell (from the outside), it is political so that a department doesn't need to be told something like: Our system is at capacity and we have dedicated what we have to ..insert other department... Instead they are told: Your job is running. For some value of running. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Best aproach - IEANTRT+BALR or LINK
On 12/1/2006 12:02 PM, ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO wrote: We have been using na OPEN exit (IFG0EX0B) for years sucessfully and every time we have to do some maintenance an IPL is needed. To circunvent it i`ll change it to a front-end exit which actually invokes the real code. I'm thinking in something like that : ...snipped... I can't comment on overhead, but from a design perspective I would probably have IFG0EX0B use CSVDYNEX to invoke the real exit. Walt -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Plurals and language confusion
On 1 Dec 2006 07:36:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM) wrote: Well, now you hit a topic on the head, that I, as non-English, never was able to understand, not get a feel for: why you say: the police *are* i.s.o. the police *is*... as we do and lots of other languages. Also: the firebrigade *are*? Why not then: the population are? And even more strange is Elvis Costello's text: Oliver's army *are* on their way, Oliver's army *is* here to stay. (Unless this is incorrect Enghlish of course). Another example of group/individual confusion is: The Broncos are playing the Seahawks, but The Avalanche is playing the Oilers. Funny thing, people might say The Avs are playing the Oilers. I wouldn't say Oliver's army are on their way, nor the firebrigade are (I am an American - other English speaking people might be different here). But police is an interesting word that didn't start off as a noun - it doesn't have the normal singular/plural syntaxes. One word that has a modern usage that bothers me is troop.As in, today 50 troops were killed in a skirmish.They mean 50 soldiers (or maybe mixed soldiers and marines..). While Americans go to school, we don't go to hospital the way the English do. We go to a hospital or to the hospital. Occasionally we will mistake the last letter of an acronym ending with S as a plural, which grates on my ears almost as much as Enter your PIN number to the ATM machine.I haven't yet heard anybody say CICS are But if we are writing user documentation - should we say PIN Number irritating some customers, or PIN, confusing others? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
[SPAM] RE: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
Unfortunately users would rather see their jobs 'running' even when they aren't receiving much, if any, service, than sitting in the input queue. It is difficult to explain to someone who doesn't understand the OS that cutting the number of concurrent jobs will increase throughput in a CPU at 100% situation. I feel your pain.. Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 - This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
[SPAM] RE: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down
Jon Brock wrote: According to someone on the VM list server, the problem was not with the system itself but with its access to the 'Net. To the end user it doesn't matter what caused the problem, only the result, which is no IBMLINK access. Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 - This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: [SPAM] RE: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 2:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: [SPAM] RE: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down Jon Brock wrote: According to someone on the VM list server, the problem was not with the system itself but with its access to the 'Net. To the end user it doesn't matter what caused the problem, only the result, which is no IBMLINK access. Jon L. Veilleux We have that same problem. Some of our CICS systems are front ended with a GUI-izer that __we__ (IT, not Tech Services) wrote blech. When that Windows system has problems, the report is that CICS is not available. Not true. The 3270 stuff is running fine. The end user, reasonably, does not care. They need to get their work done. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Best aproach - IEANTRT+BALR or LINK
Walt Farrell said ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO wrote: We have been using na OPEN exit (IFG0EX0B) for years sucessfully and every time we have to do some maintenance an IPL is needed. To circunvent it i`ll change it to a front-end exit which actually invokes the real code. I'm thinking in something like that : ...snipped... I can't comment on overhead, but from a design perspective I would probably have IFG0EX0B use CSVDYNEX to invoke the real exit. I agree. As for performance, don't worry IEANTRT is an extremely short path. It won't be a performance problem, but although the books lie when they say you need a save area (you don't) be aware you DO need to have storage for the parameter list and the return area for the token value. CC -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
We end up having problems cancelling TSO users and test batch jobs. The CANCEL is accepted, but the address space cannot get any CPU to actually terminate. In what I humourously call my mind, this is a no-brainer (not having one makes this easy for me). Let'em rot! If they're not getting enough resource to cancel, they're not getting enough to run! So, they're doing nothing. Therefore, they're NOT a problem, and not interfering with anything. The problem comes down to the user not getting throughput/response. But, that's akin to: Doctor, it hurts when I do this! Dr: Well, don't do that! When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DD FREE=CLOSE -- when effective?
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate that. My ex used to hate that, too. Now my boys are doing it; she's complaining to them about it. Is it a guy thing? I've heard other women complain about this. When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
The problem comes in if the job that is being cancelled has control of a resource that is required for a higher importance job to run. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software LLC NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation. We end up having problems cancelling TSO users and test batch jobs. The CANCEL is accepted, but the address space cannot get any CPU to actually terminate. In what I humourously call my mind, this is a no-brainer (not having one makes this easy for me). Let'em rot! If they're not getting enough resource to cancel, they're not getting enough to run! So, they're doing nothing. Therefore, they're NOT a problem, and not interfering with anything. The problem comes down to the user not getting throughput/response. But, that's akin to: Doctor, it hurts when I do this! Dr: Well, don't do that! When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
Once you reach 100%, each additional submitted job takes cpu cycles away from Problem State because the operating system needs the cycles in Supervisor State to manage the additional workload. PIFFLE! NOT enough to worry about. Show me the metrics. SRM/WLM will only adjust one service class per interval. If a higher importance class is in trouble, it will be 'fixed'. If the lower ones are being adjiusted, then: 1. They need it; everything is fine. 2. Somebody higher should have been adjusted. Solutions: 1. Is correct. No worries! 2. Is correct. Adjust the policy! Otherwise, let'm rot! Eventually, they'll get service. And, that's better than cancelling them so the user can re-(submit/logon). When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.
The problem comes in if the job that is being cancelled has control of a resource that is required for a higher importance job to run. That was not in the original post. We DO not let testers access production! If it's test VS test, tough! PS: FORCE job,ARM (Or, make it non-swappable in OMEGAMON) When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IBMLINK and SHOPZSERIES are Both Down
I am getting the same messages on IBMLINK Green Screen as Ed Jaffe was receiving: ICH70001I T424GAM LAST ACCESS AT 23:29:17 ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2006 z/VM Version 5 Release 2.0, Service Level 0601 (64-bit), built on IBM Virtualization Technology There is no logmsg data FILES: NO RDR, NO PRT, NO PUN LOGON AT 23:31:16 UTC FRIDAY 12/01/06 ELINK z/VM CMS 22 20-Apr-2006 0192 not linked; request denied $GEOXT$ - unable to VMLINK CFSWEUA 192 Disk. RC=1298 23:31:22 ACVRDR0209I Spool file 1187 (NOVMLINK CFSWEUA) is not in NETDATA form at. Ready; T=0.20/0.23 23:31:22 HOLDING ELINK7==From Line 24 I was not sure from Ed's post if he successfully recevied the IBMLINK Main Menu or not. I wanted others to be aware that although the above issue is still occurring ( Friday, 12/01/06, 18:00 Central Standard Time 00:00 GMT ) you can get past this condition. Note that the CP/CMS status line ( Line 24 on a 24x80 screen ) indicates HOLDING. VM wants the user to press the 3270 Clear or PA2 key. I used the Clear key ( PA2 key also works ) and successfully received the IBMLINK Main Menu. The screen was placed into HOLDING status ( I'm guessing ) because of the highlighted ACVRDR0209I message. I searched on IBMLINK Google and didn't get one hit. It is probably from an IBM internal SVM ( Service Virtual Machine ) that receives VMLINK command failures. FYI: According to the VMLINK command, a Return Code of: 1298 is really: VMLINK RC Meaning 1xxxCP LINK returned RC = xxx. Checking the CP LINK command return codes, Return Code of 298 is: HCP298E userid vdev not linked; request denied According to the z/VM online help messages manual, HCP298E means: HCP298E userid vdev not linked; request denied. Explanation: The external security manager (ESM) has determined you are not authorized to link to the virtual device that you specified in the LINK command. System Action: The command is ignored. The link is not done. User Response: Obtain the appropriate authorization and enter the LINK command again. Operator Response: Contact your system administrator to obtain the necessary authorization. I'll bet somebody changed something in the database of RACF/VM. Glenn Miller --- This message (including any attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change. ABN AMRO Bank N.V, which has its seat at Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is registered in the Commercial Register under number 33002587, including its group companies, shall not be liable for the improper or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this communication nor for any delay in its receipt or damage to your system. ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (or its group companies) does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. --- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Favorite Service for Parallel Sysplex Aggregation?
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 14:25 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: Speaking of paranoid, what has been your experience with concerns about XCF, console, and GRS risks? This is for the beginning Parallel Sysplex customer: they're thinking that these three base Sysplex features could undermine isolation between workloads they want isolated. Is this a reasonable feeling on their part? Customer(s) feeling paranoid about letting vendors put all their eggs in one basket ???. Personally I'd say that's not unreasonable. As for workload isolation, I've never had it raised as an issue - maybe they're thinking WLM ???. XCF is a comms protocol - generally I don't have much problem convincing customers this is not a bad thing. GRS can normally also be characterised as a benefit. The rest can be a problem, depending on the paranoia index. I used to like to use the wizards for initial sizings - meant I could blame IBM should they be wrong. May not be a viable option for you of course :0) Just had another look at the wizards - bit different these days. Maybe they copped too much flack. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
